Film

Bob AulertArchive Shelly Long. Tom Selleck. Ted Danson. The roll call of TV celebrities who have had a tough time jumping from the cathode ray tube to the silver screen is a long and not so illustrious one. Jamie Foxx is ...

Tom BlockArchive When the hero of Robert Zemeckis Cast Away returns to civilization after spending four years marooned on a South Pacific island, hes welcomed back in a homecoming staged by his employers. We glimpse but a second of the ceremony, ...

Arthur LazereArchive Suggested reading: A Dream for Gilberto: An Immigrant Family's Struggle to Become American (1999), Billie Young New American Destinies: A Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration (1996) Darrell Y. Hamamoto (Editor) Writer-director David Riker, ...

Arthur LazereArchive Dark City has been compared to Blade Runner, a 1982 sci fi wonder from Ridley Scott that starred Harrison Ford. Would that Dark City were half as good. The best sci fi or horror films - the ...

Bob AulertArchive Driven is not so much a film as a two-hour video game, minus audience participation. Spectacular car crashes and special effects surround two-dimensional characters and a story so cliched and false that one never gets involved beyond waiting ...

Tom BlockArchive David Finchers Fight Club (from a novel by Chuck Palahniuk) is about a special kind of male anger. Its the anger of single guys, night-owl guys, guys who work and fret and have nothing to show for it, guys ...

David FearArchive Harlean Carpenter, later christened and groomed for stardom as "Jean Harlow", wasn't the silver screen's first goddess of wanton carnal desire, nor would she be the last. Even sixty-plus years after her career was cut short and the curtains ...

Scott Von DoviakArchive If and when we daydream about being miraculously endowed with super-powers, how many of us fantasize about using our new abilities to help our fellow man? The typical Marvel comics superhero receives his power through some terrible accident (usually ...